Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[Cain]

All ongoing things I may have promised may be subject to further delay, as I have interviews coming up and another essay due in a few weeks. 

I mean, I should get around to some of them this weekend, but my time is becoming increasingly less free for the short term.

[Suu]

Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson. 

[Cain]

I suspect the whole "snorting Smarties" thing is an urban legend anyway.

I mean, I'm sure a select number of dumbasses, after hearing "everyone" was doing it gave it a try themselves, but I hardly believe it is an "epidemic sweeping OUR schools", as the Daily Mail puts it.

[Suu]

I suspect the whole "snorting Smarties" thing is an urban legend anyway.

I mean, I'm sure a select number of dumbasses, after hearing "everyone" was doing it gave it a try themselves, but I hardly believe it is an "epidemic sweeping OUR schools", as the Daily Mail puts it.

They were supposedly licking toads in Barrington, another East Bay town, a few years back. I wouldn't put it past them.

[Cain]

Yeah, but that was according to FOX News.  Did their "reporter" even go to the school?  Speak to anyone involved? 

Panics like this occur every few years.  You couldn't set your watch by them, but you probably could them as the basis for a regular calendar system.  The Age of Jenkem, the Age of Crushed Smarties, the Age of Vodka Soaked Tampons, the Age of Kids Getting Suicidal Because Their Tamagotchi Died etc etc.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I put that shit right up there with butt-chuffing and vodka tampons.

[Suu]

Yeah, but that was according to FOX News.  Did their "reporter" even go to the school?  Speak to anyone involved? 

Panics like this occur every few years.  You couldn't set your watch by them, but you probably could them as the basis for a regular calendar system.  The Age of Jenkem, the Age of Crushed Smarties, the Age of Vodka Soaked Tampons, the Age of Kids Getting Suicidal Because Their Tamagotchi Died etc etc.

THEY'RE THINKING OF THE CHILDREN. CLEARLY.

[hooplala]

Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

[Suu]

Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

Nosebleeds, at most. And colorful boogers.

[hooplala]

Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

Nosebleeds, at most. And colorful boogers.

What's not to love about either of those?

[LMNO]

Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

If you did enough, I'd assume there's a possibility of asphyxia, as the sugar is going into the lungs rather than the stomach.

[hooplala]

Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

If you did enough, I'd assume there's a possibility of asphyxia, as the sugar is going into the lungs rather than the stomach.

Oh right... science.  I forgot about what snorting did.  I'd blame it on being Monday, but I believe I am two days late for that.  Carry on...

[Junkenstein]

There was apparently a trend of snorting (crushed) Polo mints here relatively recently. The idea appears to be that they know they can't get high from the mint, but the oxygen deprivation is apparently equivalent to something.

What "something" is, I don't know. Bullshit? Probably. Believable? Round here, certainly.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson. 

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson. 

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous. 

Don't you care about our assets?